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U.S.-Chinese trade relations seem to be improving after high-level trade talks here late last week a

Nico Colchester, deputy editor of The Economist from 1989 to 1993, died Wednesday of a heart attack

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Oct. 6, '95 - Sept. 27, '96 (a graph)* A

Two brothers who ran an Ontario freight forwarding firm are under arrest for allegedly selling donat

More than 250 people engaged in trading and transporting breakbulk commodities are meeting in New Or

Switzerland and the United States Friday signed a framework bilateral accord to improve and coordina

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. is getting a jump on the recently merged Union Pacific-Southern P

Ed DeFrancesco is a builder. As the president of a steamship agency that helps ship gas turbines to

Coastwide strikes and contract negotiations over container cargo produce the big headlines, but the

With six new heavy-lift ships on order, Germany's SAL GmbH & Co. is taking aim at the U.S. heavy-lif

Some things are just hard to describe. Ask a friend to describe a Vandyke beard without the help of

Trouble is brewing for coffee handlers in New York and New Orleans, traditionally the two major entr

CONSECO TO BUYTRANSPORT HOLDINGSCARMEL, Ind. - Conseco Inc. has said it will acquire Transpo

The Florida Residential Property & Casualty Joint Underwriting Association has a new plan to get sma

In a warning to the insurance industry, Florida's insurance department rejected Nationwide Insurance

Competition among leading coal exporting nations is expected to increase during the next two years,

The majority of New York state's 29,700 doctors will see decreases in their medical malpractice insu

Two state senators want to lower auto insurance rates in New Jersey by making legislative changes to

Cool summer weather, tough competition between coal and natural gas, clean air rules and deregulatio

Europe's coal industry has been forced onto the sidelines as the spotlight falls on liberalization o

As container carriers increasingly look to cut the number of ports they serve, some East Coast ports

Brazil on Friday blocked a request by Canada for an international dispute panel to consider expediti

September has always been a month of change. Perhaps it is the weather, the month trading the end of

Global markets for U.S. coal are expected to grow for the fourth straight year in 1997, with export

High over the North Atlantic, the El Al Israel Airlines 747 freighter is inbound to New York, due at

The first lesson you learn in business is to keep moving. Stand still, and somebody will surely knoc

WORLD AIRPORTS reported a May rise of 8 percent in cargo over the same month last year.Figur

A snapshot of the Internet taken in mid-September reveals just how much more information is availabl

During the traditionally quiet summer season on the European air cargo front, freighter operators in

Couriers are scrambling to enhance security systems in the aftermath of the bombing of TWA Flight 80

Today, many agents take exception if they are called ''forwarders.'' Logistics is the buzzword of th

German government officials, weighing the aviation and commercial needs of the country's largest cit

Transnational electronic commerce, electronic mail, online sales, intranet are some of the new - and

The Commerce Department will host a conference Oct. 6-8 in Pittsburgh exploring trade and investment

The North American Free Trade Agreement has changed the way Japanese-affiliated companies do busines

Smaller airports, left to struggle in the shadow of the nation's giant aviation complexes, are winni

The Clinton administration has told the South Korean government it is violating a 1995 bilateral aut

''It was a very simple crane. It went up, down, in, out. Just what you wanted it to do.''

CANADA'S REQUESTSBLOCKED BY WTO PANELGENEVA - Canada was thwarted Friday in two requests to

U.S. steelmakers are angry at a decision by Mexico's commerce ministry to uphold a court's order whi